Torontoist » controversy http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Urban Planner: December 23, 2011 The Peace Maker is read at the Fringe Creation Labs; Christmas with The Headstones; and celebrating 30 years of Controversy.

This one's for Christmas, and this one's for fun; the Headstones play a reunion show at the Sound Academy tonight. Photo by Gordon Hawkins.

POETRY: For the final Toronto Poetry Slam of 2011, organizers are bringing in Deonte Osayande to perform. He’s the the man behind (and in front of, as host) the Roses and Revolutions Poetry Slam in Detroit, and he represented his city on Detroit’s team at the 2011 U.S. National Poetry Slam Championship. Unlike most slam [...]

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Photo by Smedlipotski from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Why, at the very crest of Apple’s latest wave of buzz, is the Toronto District School Board moving to phase out Mac computers in all its facilities? Lots of reasons. The decision was announced in a briefing note, submitted to the TDSB’s trustees on November 13 by [...]

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